data collection

Businesses looking for ways to provide insights based on data around benchmarks and industry analysis are a big draw in venture capital these days. From our fellow AOL brand CrunchBase, to data and analytics companies like Compass, these types of services offer multi-million dollar opportunities that investors are finding increasingly attractive.
In the case of CrunchBase, it’s AOL, who… Read More

This new book, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think – written by Oxford University professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and The Economist journalist Ken Cukier – is the definitive guide to a new age which, both authors promise, is going to revolutionize the way we live, work and think. Read More

We’ve all seen how Google uses targeted advertising to supply web surfers with relevant advertising. ISPs monitor traffic by a different method, deep packet inspection. Several ISPs were preparing to sell the data they have been collecting, which caught the attention of Congress.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent out letters of inquiry earlier this month to 33 companies… Read More